Laundry bag



March 27, 1934.

M. H. SIDEBOTHAM 1,953,027

LAUNDRY BAG Original Filed Sept. 5, 1931 =1 I I i! g 2: i n A l 1: j i I/ l -B l-+T k 7I 1 1 7 i c g 1 4 i d ff I I Mi i i A V W07): HSzdaZzoiham,

Patented Mar. 27, 1934 LAUNDRY BAG Melvin H. Sidebotham,

West Newton, Mass, as-

signor to Specialty Automatic Machine Company, Chelsea, Mass, chusctts a corporation of Massa- Original application September 5, 1931, Serial No. 561,360. Divided and this application Novemher 15, 1932, Serial No. 642,809

3 Claims.

This invention relates to paper containers, and has particular reference to fiat paper bags suitable for the deposit of soiled clothing therein 5 and for the transportation of the whole to a laundry. As is well known, such bags are used largely by hotels and furnished to guests for the latter to deposit therein articles which are to be sent to a laundry. On such bags it is customary to apply printed matter including the name of the hotel and indications where the names or room numbers of the guests are to be filled in.

As such bags are not articles for which the hotels can make charge items to their guests; in other words, since the bags are practically given free to the guests, it is important that they shall be of low cost to the hotels and yet possess a high degree of utility to the guests.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide paper bags suitable for containing clothing to be laundered, or other articles, which bags carry securely attached strings for closing the tops of the bags.

Another object is to provide such bags having reinforced holes to enable the bags to be hung on hooks.

With said objects in view, and others hereinafter explained, the invention consists in the receptacles hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the bags.

Figures 2, 3 and 4 represent sections on lines 22, 33 and 4-4 respectively of Figure 1, Figures 3 and 4 being on enlarged scales.

In view of the fact that the present application is a division of my application Serial No. 561,360, filed September 5, 1931, and which became Letters Patent No. 1,944,332, dated January 23, 1934, it is desirable that in describing the bags or containers, some reference shall be made to the steps of making the bags or containers which are claimed herein. Each of said articles comprises a longitudinally folded section of paper a the edges of which are first overlapped and adhesively secured to form a longitudinal seam b so as to consist of a tubular section open at both ends. Then, by the machine illustrated in the Letters Patent referred to, the end edge portions 0, d, of the flat tube are folded and adhesively secured (Figs. 1 and 4). The other end, e, is left open. Preferably the section of paper is so cut or formed that the front wall of the bag is shorter than the rear wall which includes the seam b as illustrated by comparing Figures 1 and 3. In other words, the edges at the open end e are not flush with each other.

A section of string j is laid across the fiat tube near its open end, and across the midlength of the string is adhesively secured a tab 9 of strong material such as kraft paper. Then a curved slit h is formed in the back wall of the bag close to the string and in the seam portion of the front wall of the bag and in the tab g, thereby providing a reinforced but closable aperture for a purpose presently described.

The slit h is made by a curved die so as to not punch a complete hole but to leave flap portions of the paper that can be deflected to provide a hole. Therefore, if the bag is to be used to contain goods to which moths must not gain access, the slit elfected by the die has no function; that is, the flaps of paper will lie flat so that no such hole as would admit moths will exist.

Referring to Figures 1 and 3, it will be seen that the edges of the bag at the open end e are not flush. In other words, the back member or layer of the bag which includes the lap seam b and the folds c d, and which has the string J and tab g attached thereto, projects at the open end 6 beyond the end edge of the other or front layer which is smooth and which, in practice, usually bears printed matter. This inequality of the edges of the two layers at the open end of the bag coacts with the reinforced hole It in the following respect:--

When the bag is hung on a hook entering the hole It in the reinforced portion of the bag, such hook, unless the bag is very carelessly applied to the hook, passes only through the hole in the rear wall of the bag. In fact such hole need not exist in the front wall except for the fact that in the operation of the machine as illustrated and described in the application referred to, the cutting die passes through the layer which is to be the front wall of the bag in order to reach and act on the other or back layer and the tab 9'. Therefore, when the bag is hung on a hook, the usual upturned end of such hook terminates inside the bag above the hole in the front wall, and tends somewhat to spread or open the bag. Whether such tendency to spread the top of the bag opens its upper end or not, articles can be very easily deposited in the bag because the inequality of its upper edges as hereinbefore described, and illustrated at e in Figures 1 and 3, enables the users fingers to so separate the top edges as to open the bag for the insertion of articles. Of course the string ,1 is hanging loosely, but is always present 110 to be used to tie around the upper portion of the bag when it and its contents are to be removed or transported.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. A paper bag one of the walls ofwhich includes a seam consisting of adhesively secured overlapped edge portions of the paper material, a string crossing said seam, and a separate tab overlying the string and seam, the said tab and seam being apertured to enable the bag to be hung on a hook.

2. A paper bag one of the walls of which includes a seam consisting of adhesively secured overlapped edge portions of the paper material,

a string crossing said seam, and a separate tab overlying the string and seam, the said taband seam being apertured to enable the bag to be hung on a hook, the other wall of the bag being shorter than the wall having the seam to facilitate access to the bag for filling While hung on a hook.

3. A paper bag one of the walls of which includes a seam, a string crossing said seam, and a tab overlying the string and adhesively secured in place, said seam and tab having a slit to enable the bag to be hung on a hook, said slit being of a shape to provide aclosable flap.

MELVIN H. SIDEBOTHAM. 

